Google has given notice that anyone using its Google Cloud services will need to secure their account(s) via 2FA, as the tech giant will be making it mandatory by the end of 2025.
The move is similar to when Github required all developers using its platform to protect their accounts with two-factor authentication...Read more...
Valve first announced its Steam Game Recording feature in June of this year, almost taunting players with the moniker “Clips, or it didn’t happen.” Since that time, Game Recording has been in beta, and therefore only available to certain gamers. Now, however, the handy recording feature is available for use across the...Read more...
A few years ago, when you thought of NVIDIA, powerful GeForce RTX graphics cards were the first thing that popped into your mind. In 2024, that has drastically changed for some, with NVIDIA overtaking industry behemoths such as Apple for the title of world's most valuable company. While GPUs are still the core...Read more...
Now that we're a week into November, it won't be long before retailers start promoting Black Friday and Cyber Monday discounts. Heck, to some extent, it's already starting to happen. Earlier this week, we rounded up several great MacBook Air and Beats deals with discounts up to 50% off. Switching gears, today's focus...Read more...
Bitcoin, the most popular cryptocurrency of them all, surged to an all-time high valuation in the nighttime hours as it became apparent that former President Donald Trump had the necessary votes to defeat current Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 Presidential election. While the votes are still being tallied...Read more...
AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D: $479 MSRP The new AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D pairs Zen 5 with 2nd Generation 3D V-Cache to boost gaming performance, increase clocks, and enable more robust overclocking. capabilities. Great Gaming Performance Power Efficient Easy To Cool No Sacrifice General Computing Only 8 Cores Price Premium Anyone that has been paying...Read more...
Nintendo still is not ready to reveal a successor to its immensely popular Switch console just yet, but it is sharing some additional information that will come as great news to owners of current generation Switch consoles, especially those with big game libraries. In a post on X/Twitter, Nintendo President Shuntaro...Read more...
Google has been the king of search for many years. However, competition is beginning to heat up, with Microsoft enticing people to use its Bing via a $1 million sweepstakes, and now OpenAI offering up its own AI-infused search engine, ChatGPT Search.
OpenAI announced its ChatGPT Search feature at the beginning of...Read more...
If you read that headline and thought, "hey wait, isn't the 285 already out," then you forgot to look at the letter. The Core Ultra 9 285H is an unannounced mobile processor from Intel based on the Arrow Lake architecture. Intel hasn't said anything about mobile Arrow Lake yet, but the first benchmark leak has...Read more...
Ubisoft is looking to rehab its long running Assassin's Creed franchise, with fresh storylines that are able to successfully weave together a narrative that connects the present with the past. Executive Producer Marc-Alexis Coté, noted that once the original trilogy ended, “the modern storyline struggled to find its...Read more...
Usually, it takes a human to uncover vulnerabilities in a computer system, but before long, the computers may be doing it alone. Google's Deep Mind and Project Zero divisions have teamed up to create a new kind of large language model (LLM) that can identify security flaws, and the model spotted its first critical...Read more...
The search engine battle has been heating up, with new contenders like OpenAI’s ChatGPT search engine emerging onto the scene, as well as a possible breakup of Google by the Department of Justice looming in the background. So, it is no surprise that Microsoft is looking at new ways of trying to persuade people to use...Read more...
General Motors is hard set on developing its own custom user interface for some of its future products, replacing the likes of Apple CarPlay and Android Auto. The reason? Improved safety, usability, and driver attention. The company believes that removing smartphone projections and integrating apps into GM's own...Read more...
The original Wii console (not to be confused with the Wii U) is one of the most popular game consoles of all time, and Nintendo's fourth-best selling console ever at 101.63 million units, trailing only the Game Boy (118.69 million units), Switch family (146.04 million units), and Nintendo DS (154.02 million units)...Read more...
New observations from the James Webb Space Telescope and Chandra X-ray Observatory unveiled that a low-mass supermassive black hole, known as LID-568, appears to eating up matter at over 40 times the theoretical limit. The discovery of the supermassive black hole, thought to be within 1.5 billion years after the Big...Read more...
Microsoft's popular Xbox Game Pass service has been a staple for gamers looking to maximize their game libraries without breaking the bank. Offering a plethora of titles for a varied monthly subscription, it has been a great way to experience a large variety of games. The primary reason for the success of Game Pass...Read more...
According to an anonymous tip, Apple is working on 90Hz refresh rate LCD panels that could find their way into multiple products, including the 2025 iPad Air, Studio Display monitor, and perhaps even the iMac. Can we say that it's about time it happened? The current 60Hz displays on these devices have been crying for...Read more...
It would be dopey of AMD to only release a single current-generation consumer processor (read: Zen 5) with 3D V-Cache, and also unprecedented. So color us not the least bit surprised that a major hardware partner—Gigabyte, in case you skipped right past the headline—has essentially confirmed that at least one more...Read more...
It's Election Day in the United States and, following mad dashes to the polling booths, it will take some time to determine the results. In the meantime, however, when it comes to two other popular candidates—Windows 11 and Windows 10—we have some figures to share, though you'll have to decide for yourself which one...Read more...
Corsair MP700 Elite PCIe Gen 5 SSD: $259 MSRP, (2TB) The new Corsair MP700 Elite PCIe Gen 5 SSD outguns previous-gen DRAM-less drives and consumes less power than flagship Gen 5 drives, to strike a great balance for a wide range of systems. Good Sequential Transfers Relaitvely Low Power No Heatsink Required (But...Read more...
Some big PS5 Pro news today, just a scant few days before the upgraded console officially hits the market on November 7th. First up, we have some official specifications for the system shared not by Sony itself, but rather by Euro tech outlet Digital Foundry, who apparently acquired two separate PS5 Pro machines and...Read more...
Nintendo surprised just about everyone with its announcement of the Alarmo, especially with gamers waiting on the eventual arrival of the not-so-secret Nintendo Switch 2. Alarmo is a proprietary device with limited out of the box functionality, and so in time-honored tradition, someone figured out how to run Doom on...Read more...